Friday's Faith - Faith Amidst Grief's Traumatizing Distress

Friday's Faith

Faith Amidst Grief's Traumatizing Distress

No sooner had I entered last night's post

Of stress hormones' devastating effects...

Did I encounter the Threatening "Ghost"

Of Danger~just like a "Days-Gone-By-Hex"...

Infiltrating my brain before I knew

The full impact Stress was having on me,

My triggered brain was traumatized anew

As Danger's "results" were all I could see...

Hyper-startled, hyper-vigilant too...

Stress hormones geared my body for Action:

"There's Danger!

Now you know what you must do!"

...No prefrontal logic, just reaction...

And so today, I find myself uptight,

Feeling the Post-Traumatic-Stress at work...

Asking...

"Will Faith get me through this Dark Night

Where fears, triggers, and abreactions lurk...?"

The daffodil does "Growth-Work" underground

As God carefully designed it to do...

But I? I have options to "Run Aground"...

In Grief's Dark Night, my body throws a coup.

Amidst Grief's Dark Night, vile stressors abound...

Will Growth happen?

Will my Faith see me through?

How about you? Most of us had no idea of the many-faceted effects of Child-Loss Grief.

How does the Stress of Grief affect you?

Picture: Thank you to Eva Soulu for her amazing work of art... http://soulu.cgsociety.org/gallery/605247/

Poem - Faith Amidst Grief's Traumatizing Distress - Angie Bennett Prince - 4/9/2010